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Space Travel: an official guide for San Francisco commuters - Point Blank!

Graphic shows a bus with the word "nowhere" as its destination

Spoof leaflet critiquing travel, transport and commuting circulated by San Francisco situationist group Point Blank! in 1973.

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Point Blank!
Submitted by Fozzie on December 7, 2022
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The bus graphics inspired Jamie Reid's "nowhere/boredom" buses used for the Sex Pistols single "Pretty Vacant".

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Space-Travel-Point-Blank.pdf (1.66 MB)
  • transport
  • San Francisco
  • 1970s
  • situationist
  • spoofs
  • comics

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